Wheeler Gilman (10 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 162 pp. Digest format. Edge and corner wear with a crease on the front hinge and a crease on the spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Jill Bauman. This issue contains: Novelettes: The Graceless Child by Charles de Lint; Heartwired by James Lawson; and Madrelita by Deborah Wheeler. Short Stories: Bootstrap Enterprise by Victor Koman; Lonesome Homesick Blues by Jack C. Haldeman II; The Swan by Robert Onopa; Look Away by Steven Utley; How to Tame the Vampire by Wendy Counsil; and Lost Road by Carolyn Ives Gilman; along with Of Human Folly - a science article by Isaac Asimov; cartoons by Joseph Farris, S. Harris, Marc Laidlaw and H. Martin; and all the usual features. Size: 12mo. Jill Bauman; (illustrator). Book.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. First Edition. xx, 567 pp. Selected by Shira Wolosky, with Preface, Introduction, Bibliographical Comments, and introductions to poets.

Hardcover. 260p., semi-coated paperstock with frontis, preface, introduction and appendices. The lineup includes poems by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, Joaquin Miller et alia. Find two fullpage plates, a photoportrait of Pelton and an imaginary portrait of him standing under heavenly light. There are several steel-engraved vignettes and a small photo of the "First Baptist church and first public school in California, 1819" (even decades later it is a single building resembling a warehouse); a relevant newsclip is laid in that has offset badly. Also find pencilled brackets and the address of the no longer extant church. Pastedown bears a generic bookplate with another label farther on, the 9x6 inch maroon cloth casing is uglified by shelfwear and fray, dampstaining, and a dimming to near-illegibility of the gilt titling. Hinges are OK, text is clean and sound. Gilman is represented by a single contribution, "Thanksgiving", a twelve-line poem. Pelton was San Francisco's superintendent of public schools and founder of the first public schools in California. His son was the architect of Pelton Homes which can still be found in the Haight.…

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Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.